Tag: permeability

From today, for the first time in nearly 50 years, you can legally turn right from Kingsland Road into Old Street on a pedal cycle. The manoeuvre was banned back in the 1960s when the main streets of Shoreditch, including Old Street, were turned into a mile-long triangular racetrack of a one-way system, creating superb […]

Swimmers Lane is currently blocked by guard railing and an obsolete loading bay on Whiston Road. A dropped kerb, a couple of bollards, and longer double yellow lines are needed at the Laburnum Street end. Swimmers Lane is a newly widened connection between Whiston Road and Laburnum Street, flanked by the still-closed Haggerston Baths to […]

View Missing ‘except cycles’ signs in the London Borough of Hackney in a larger map With so many streets in Hackney ‘filtered’ so that they can’t be used as rat runs by through motor traffic, it’s a pity if the signage fails to advertise that they’re still open to cycle traffic. Many filtered streets — […]